In part 1 of this post, we talked about the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team’s lawsuit alleging that its employer, the U.S. Soccer Federation, paid team members less than members of their male counterpart, the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team. In that blog, we...
Month: July 2019
Part 1: Biggest unequal pay story in the news: Women’s soccer
The U.S Women’s National Soccer Team (WNT) recently won the World Cup against the Netherlands. But right behind the win, the media has widely covered the lawsuit filed in March by 28 of the female soccer players against its employer, the U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF)....
Feds find Kentucky restaurant violated wage-and-hour laws
A federal investigation recently found that a Central City restaurant violated federal labor laws. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division ordered the employer to pay eight employees a total of $78,562, a combination of back wages and liquidated damages....
Kentucky restricts employer shortening of lawsuit deadlines
A new Kentucky law that took effect last month places limits on an employer’s ability to require employees, as a condition of employment, to submit to mandatory arbitration to resolve future employment disputes. Another part of the same law, however, also allows...
LGBTQ employment discrimination ordinances are caught in a legal lurch
Officials for various cities in western Kentucky are debating whether local laws should protect LGBTQ employees and job applicants against discrimination based on their sexual identity or sexual orientation, according to the Messenger-Inquirer. So-called fairness...
Filing discrimination claim with EEOC held not jurisdictional
With all the speculation about philosophical differences among U.S. Supreme Court justices, they recently released an opinion in which they spoke with one voice in a unanimous ruling about an important aspect of federal anti-discrimination law. Specifically, the Court...